Fathers & Sons Campout

Tad took Derek and Kevin camping this last weekend for our Ward's Fathers & Sons campout. Click on the pictures to make them bigger.

And here is a picture of the tube in Kevin's eye that lasted a whole 6 days before popping out on its own.... or so Tad says....

Kevin's surgery

My sweet baby boy Kevin had his tear duct surgery this morning. The procedure he had a few months ago was unsuccessful, so this time they put in a tube to hold the duct open. It was still pretty simple, but he had to be put completely out and get an IV. He was kicking quite a bit while he was waking up, so they let me back in the recovery room earlier than usual. And can you guess what his first words were as he was starting to come to???? No, not mommy, it was "bottle". He chugged his sippy cup and then fell right asleep. When we got back home, it still took him a while before he was normal... when I first put him down, he tried to walk and fell over, tried to get up again and fell again, and did it again. But now that he's got some food in him again, he's pretty happy.

Way to go mom!!

Way to go mom!! After years of listening for your name to be called on the radio station and years of us kids making fun of you for doing it, you finally won some money!! Yeah! You deserve it, we're so proud of you!

PS - if you want someone to go shopping with you, you know who to call!!

What a mess!

Well, I guess every good thing has its ending.... Paige and Kevin have been in their toddler beds doing GREAT for almost 3 months now. They never got out of their beds! The past few days have been a different story! They've finally figured out that they can tear apart their room every day and every night and they must have decided that it's a ton of fun to do that because they've been doing it EVERYDAY this week! A few nights ago, they had clothes strewn across the floor and had white faces because they smeared diaper rash cream all over themselves. I kick myself for not taking a picture! As if reading my mind, they did it again yesterday, just without the white faces. They actually pulled their dresser drawers out too! Here's a picture of the room....

Look at Kevin go!!! He did so good climbing up this slide at the water park yesterday...

Playing in the Irrigation

Tad took the kids out bright and early yesterday morning for irrigation and they had a blast. He said the water was freezing, but they didn't seem to mind.

Recipe of the week

I'm always looking for new ideas of things to cook. I'm going to start posting recipes every once in a while and I hope that those looking at our blog will post their favorite recipes in the comments portion, and then we'll all have new things to cook!
So, here's what I made tonight... It's stuffed ravioli with snow peas and peppers. This picture is before I added the sauce, which was a creamy red sauce.
2 packages Bertolli refridgerated raviolis - on sale this week at Frys
2 or three colored sweet bell peppers diced
Snow peas
1. Boil the ravioli
2. Saute the snow peas and peppers in olive oil
3. Mix and add sauce
It's easy and yummy!